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But instead of being protected on this account, as it deserves to be, it is everywhere persecuted and trodden upon. So you see, mamma." "We will not persecute your chafer, Fred; but his place is not in your pocket, nor on the study-table, my boy; take him away," said his mother; and at the same time his aunt called to Rikli through the open door:
Stein hastened back into the other room. The packing was done, and aunty had gone away with Oscar. The other children were complaining that they wanted her, and they didn't see why Oscar should keep her all to himself. Little Rikli had been watching all the preparations with the keenest interest, and, as it turned out, with an unfortunate effect.
With a piercing cry, the child flew into the house, but was instantly stopped by Kathri, with: "Hush! hush! When there is that sick little girl in there, how can you make such a noise?" "Where is aunty?" asked Rikli; a question that the maid answered before it was fairly uttered, for it was asked hundreds of times in that household every day. "In the other room.
The lady followed with Mrs. Stein. "That girl is a great deal bigger than you are, if mother did say that she was only eight or nine years old," said Fred to Rikli. "She is more nearly Emma's age, and what do you suppose she would think to hear you screaming as you did just now? I don't think she'd like you for a friend."
Rikli seems to have been the apostle of air-baths and sun-baths regarded as a systematic method. He established light-and air-baths over half a century ago at Trieste and elsewhere in Austria. His motto was: "Light, Truth, and Freedom are the motive forces towards the highest development of physical and moral health." Man is not a fish, he declared; light and air are the first conditions of a highly organized life. Solaria for the treatment of a number of different disordered conditions are now commonly established, and most systems of natural therapeutics attach prime importance to light and air, while in medicine generally it is beginning to be recognized that such influences can by no means be neglected. Dr. Fernand Sandoz, in his Introduction
So Rikli became quite reconciled to her lot, and was in good-humor again. Oscar had meantime led his aunt into an unused bedroom on the ground floor, and, having locked the door for farther security from interruption, he announced that he had something very important to consult her about.
Rikli came back into the room just as Fred was carrying the beetle out, and, as they met in the door-way, Fred said: "I'll make up a poem about you. You are the musician with the sweet tones of your voice, and I am a brother-artist, a poet"
Emma made no reply, but went quietly to bed; she had not the least idea of giving up her friendship for Fani, to please anybody. As they were all going upstairs in a little family procession, first Oscar, then Emma, then the aunt, and last the two younger children, Fred turned to Rikli and said: "Haha, Rikli, this goes capitally!" and he sang in a loud voice to a tune of his own making:
But I'll find another to-morrow to show you." "No! no!" cried Rikli. "Say 'no, aunty; it will jump right into your face, and it has yellow eyes like a dragon's." Fred had doubled up his fist as if he had something in it, and now he suddenly opened it into his sister's face. She sprang back with a cry, and away through the door.
He induced his aunt to promise him all the useless boxes in the house, and all winter long he stored them away in his room in readiness for the expected occupants. Little Rikli enjoyed the anticipation of the summer with pure delight.
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